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Internet Modern History Sourcebook

Religion Since 1945

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Contents

• Religion since 1945
• Roman Catholicism
• Protestantism
• Eastern Orthodoxy
• Judaism
• Islam
• Buddhism
• Humanist-Religious Debate

• Wikpedia: Secularization
  "The secularization thesis expresses the idea that through the lens of the European enlightenment modernization, rationalization, combined with the ascent of science and technology, religious authority diminishes in all aspects of social life and governance.In recent years, the secularization thesis has been challenged due to some global studies indicating that the irreligious population of the world may be in decline as a percentage of the world population..."

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Roman Catholicism

• WEB The Documents of The Second Vatican Council [At EWTN]
  Especially important is the statement on religious liberty.
• WEBCatholic Church Documents related to Biblical Studies
• Pope Pius XI: Mortalium Animos 1928 [At this Site]
  A papal document which opposed ecumenism.
• Pope Paul VI: On the Regulation of Birth (Humanae Vitae), (25 Jul 1968) [At the Vatican]
  A document which rocked the relationship between Catholic laity and the hierarchy in Western countries.
• The Ottaviani Intervention 1969 [At this Site]
  A rearguard action against modernization the Roman Catholic church.
• Evangelicals and Catholics Together: The Christian Mission in the Third Millennium 1994 [At EWTN]
  Interesting US statement in which conservative Catholics and Evangelicals adopted a common statement. Points to the important "liberal/conservative" split in many US churches.
• A Modern Relic Certificate 1952 [At this Site]
  Many traditional Catholic religious practices persist - such as the use of relics.
• Frank Sheed: Theology and Sanity 1947 PDF full text [At Parish Plus] [Internet Archive version here]
  Clear and intelligent exposition of Catholic theology in plain language.
• Liberation Theology
  • Pope Paul VI: Populorum Progressio: The Development of Peoples 1967 [At the Vatican]
    Probably the most radical encyclical ever issued. Vigorously anti-liberal capitalism, Paul VI is mistaken as a "conservative" by those who think only of his teaching on contraception.
  • Pope John Paul II: Opening Address at the Puebla Conference 1979 [At EWTN] [Internet Archive version here]
    Far more worried than Paul VI about correct doctrine, but not opposed to social justice.
  • Sacred Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith Instruction on Certain Aspects of "Theology of Liberation" August 6, 1984 [At New Advent]
  • Gustavo Gutierrez: Solidarity: The Victory of Life homily on death of Archbishop Oscar Romero [Was At EPICA, now Internet Archive]
  • Straight Talk on Shining Path and the Catholic Church in Peru 1992 [Was At csrp, now Internet Archive]
  • Phillip Berryman: Church and Revolution NACLA Report on the Americas, March/April, 1997 [At WHA] [Internet Archive version here]
  • Are liberation theology, feminism compatible? [Was At UMR, now Internet Archive]
    On a clash between US Feminist and Liberation theologians.

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Protestantism

• The Barmen Declaration 1934 [At Sacred Texts] [Internet Archive version here]
  A call to resistance against the theological claims of the Nazi state, In 1934 the emerging "Confessing Church" adopted this declaration drafted by Reformed theologian Karl Barth and Lutheran theologian Hans Asmussen.
• Wikipedia: Neo-Orthodoxy
• Paul Tillich: The Courage to Be 1952, excerpts [At this Site]
• Southern Baptist Convention: Statement on Religious Liberty adopted 1963 [At UTM] [Internet Archive version here]
• Evangelism Code of Ethics 1989 [Was At IVP, now Internet Archive]
• Harvey Cox: The Warring Visions of the Religious Right The Atlantic Monthly, November 1995 [Was At The Atlantic, now Internet Archive]
• Charles Trueheart: Welcome to The Next Church The Atlantic Monthly, August 1996 [Was At The Atlantic, now Internet Archive]
  On consumerist Christianity.

Eastern Orthodoxy

• John Meyendorff: Byzantine theology : historical trends and doctrinal themes 1979 [At Internet Archibe borrow facility]
• Timothy (Kallistos) Ware: The Orthodox Church 1963 [At Internet Archibe borrow facility]

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Judaism

• See Internet Jewish History Sourcebook
• The Documents of Jewish Belief [Was at North Texas, now Internet Archive]
• Martin Buber: I and Thou excerpt [Was At Buber.de, now Internet Archive]]
• Reform Judaism: A Centenary Perspective 1976 [At Sacred Texts] [Internet Archive version here]
• The Sacred Cluster: Core Beliefs of Conservative Judaism 1995 [At JTSA]
• Mordecai Kaplan: The Thirteen Wants Reconstructionist Judaism [At Sacred Texts] [Internet Archive version here]
• R. Schneur Zalman of Lyady: Tanya [At Chabad] [Internet Archive version here]

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Islam

• See Internet Islamic History Sourcebook
• Malcolm X: On His Pilgrimage to Mecca [Was At Dawanet, now Internet Archive]
• Sherif Abdel Azeem: Women in Islam Versus Women in the Judeo-Christian Tradition [At USC] [Internet Archive version here]

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Buddhism

• Wikipedia: Buddhism in the West

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Humanist-Religious Debate

• Cullen Murphy: Religion and the Cultural Elite The Atlantic Monthly, April 1994 [Was At The Atlantic, now Internet Archive]
• Glenn Tinder: Can We Be Good Without God? The Atlantic Monthly, December 1989 [Was At The Atlantic, now Internet Archive]

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NOTES:

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